As other leagues rethink racist team names, it’s time to rename...
Content warning: This opinion piece names an offensive term applied to some Indigenous Arctic peoples in the course of arguing for its removal.
In the...
Why an Arctic arms race would be a mistake
Most of America’s historic foreign policy blunders were driven by threat inflation. From fake attacks on ships in Havana Harbor or the Gulf of...
The US aid package to Greenland marks a new chapter in...
There are multiple ways to seek to understand what a new aid package from the U.S. to Greenland announced last week means. But one...
How US policy threatens existing Arctic governance
The current international cooperation in the Arctic — and the structures that allow it — have grown in the past few decades. But now...
The US writes, but does not implement, Arctic strategies
The U.S. government wrote a great deal about Arctic strategy in 2019, but it would be nice to see concrete commitments to go along...
Trump’s reversal on Alaska ocean mapping will help the Arctic
An international effort to create a definitive map of the ocean floor by 2030 will get a boost from the Trump administration’s plan to...
Russia stands ready to work together in the Arctic
In 2021 the Russian Federation will assume the presidency in the Arctic Council — a forum of Arctic countries focusing on the development of...
Why climate policy makers should listen more carefully to the Arctic’s...
While the global spotlight has placed climate change on many regional and national agendas, it’s easy to overlook smaller scale efforts to adapt and...
Some Alaska villages don’t need to ‘imagine a day without water’
Every year, the national “Imagine a Day without Water” campaign raises awareness and educates Americans about the value of water in everyday life.
In October...
Why Greenlanders are taking Trump’s interest very seriously
Annex Greenland?
We can ask the question, when Russia can annex Crimea, why would the United States hesitate with Greenland? I think that a U.S....
